There hasn't been such excitement in the auction world since Joan Didion's paperclips flew out the door at Stair Galleries two years ago for a cool $1,300.
The more trivial the item, the more feverish the bidding. Would you like to eat lettuce from the same well-crafted wooden bowl from which Stephen Sondheim ate lettuce? Well, someone would, and they paid $1,000 for it.
And then we get to the mystical end of things—those items heavy with the spirit of genius. Sondheim's thesaurus and dictionary, which he talked about a lot when discussing the creation of his rhyme schemes, went for a staggering $25,600.
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